Sometimes life is fair

[adelheid_p]

Back in August, my college-aged daughter was involved in a car accident with her "new" car. It's a 1999 Nissan Sentra that she had purchased a couple of weeks before. It was a minor accident as these things go and, according to her, the other person moved in to her lane (two lanes going the same way) without looking and hit the front driver's side of her car. According to her, the driver was a male in his late teens/early twenties. She was on her way to pick me up for lunch and was in the right lane when he decided to change from the left lane to the right lane in a larger car (possibly an Oldsmobile 88). On his car, there was minimal damage. On her car, the front turn signal light was damaged as was the fender. No one stopped to be a witness and my daughter, who is new at this, didn't get all of the information that she should have nor did it occur to her to use her camera phone to take pictures. Now, here's where the story gets ugly. She took me to lunch and reported the accident to the other person's insurance company when she got home and found out that, apparently, the father of the driver reported the accident as her fault and that he (the father) was the driver. So their insurance refused to pay. She then reported it to her own insurance company. Because her repair bill was around $700, she had to pay her $500 deductible and get the car repaired. Her insurance company went to bat for her on this and the matter had to go to arbitration. Apparently, the arbitrators found in her favor and she got her reimbursement in the mail for her deductible today.

Comments

[kosaginolegion.livejournal.com]

*shoots hand in air* YES!

Glad to hear it. Accidents are bad enough without pulling junk of that sort. Bad father, teaching son bad ethics. PBLBBLLT!

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm glad it was decided in her favor. I kept telling myself, it's only money and everyone is ok, even if the guy's dad is a jerk. I hope that what cinched it is that the only name she had for the driver was the son's name and it wasn't a junior or anything like that. It was a completely different name.